Ding Level 60!
 

First ever max level guy in EQ.

Dark Elf Grave Lord

Yay!

I started on Feb 1 2017. Only took 2 years and several months :lol:

Congrats, you won EQ!!!

Now, escape before it sucks you in for another 5-10 years! :)

Now reroll iksar!

JK, grats!

Congrats, Ineubis!

It only took 1,640,323 BB Dwarves to get that 60 :P

That seems low lol... j/k Thank you! :)

Congrats on 60!

I'm still working my way there, I started playing in August 2018 and so far my main is level 45.

I am curious to see how long it takes me to become a Hierophant!

Congrats!

Does the leveling really get that bad once you hit 50? Like, which of the levels after 49 are Hell levels? Just curious.

Grats man, I'm about to hit 45 on my Ranger, not looking forward to that one.

Race penalties not included after reaching level 51 you will have acquired 175 million total EXP.

Now begins the real game:
To reach level 60 you will need to acquire 386.6 million additional EXP. The journey of level 51-60 is 2.2x the total exp required for levels 1-51.

So yes it gets very bad, you must earn the amount of exp required for levels 1-51 more than three times to get from level 1-60.
Levels 1-51 is around 30% of the journey.

It becomes increasingly difficult after level 50, 51-59 are all considered hell levels and are significantly harder than any of the levels before it. Levels 54 and 59 are supposed to be the worst but honestly after 54 every level feels awful.

The worst part about the 51+ grind to me isn't just the total amount of exp required it's the fact that your choices on where to level become pretty limited unless you have the ability to form your own group. Most people in the 50+ level range like to hang out in Karnor's Castle, and Sebilis and if you spend the entire time in those two zones it will bore you to tears. There are other options of course but they are less frequented by players and in general you will have to bring your own group (Places like The Hole, Velketor's, Chardok, Howling Stones just to name a few).

So if you don't attempt to go explore and make your own groups in other places, you will spend more time in Karnor's Castle, or Sebilis than you did in any other zone you leveled in by a very large margin, and it doesn't help that those zones are super boring.